New Boss is an Arrogant Know-It-All 6

[MadDogMcDurmott]

Hi All,

My new boss is younger that me, has less experience, and has the biggest chip on his shoulder. What do you do in this situation?

Mad Dog McDurmott

 

[HVAC68]

What troubles you ?

1. Your boss's age ?
2. His/her experience ?
3. His shoulder ?? :0(

Was he promoted ahead of you ? Or he came from elsewhere ?

HVAC68

 

[stanier]

The most successful businesses are run by leaders and the work is done by followers. They sound like a leader but you dont sound like a good follower. Let him have his head. Better he makes a decision and you make it right than typical of managers dont make a decision, waffle around, call meetings, procrastinate etc etc. Better a leader with guts.

If you want to be a leader, quit and go somehwere else. The town isnt big enough for the two of you.

If you are just a whinging MBA managerial type leave anyhow and give the boss a chance.

If he is that bad your boss's boss appointed him so you have no chance of success so you have to quit.

All in all you are out of their with your own baggage.

 

[analogkid2digitalman]

Where is MadDog? Maybe the boss 'retired' him?

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[MadDogMcDurmott]

No, still alive and kicking.
Got a few laughs from you all.
I probably was a bit rough, but when the only avenue for career advancement is removed (no fault on Boss's part), I feel a little frustrated.

Now what are all you slackers doing playing on the internet? Get back to the cube-farm!

MDM

 

[quark]

You guys really scare me. With so many people ordering us to go back to work, it is possible that one of you may be my real boss.

BTW, Boss! what are you doing here? Get back to the work.

 

[jmw]

OK Kids,
I know excatly what you are all doing, all of the time and here's how:

http://forensicsoftware.co.uk/Policy_Central_Professional.htm

I'm just waiting till I get a real bad day and want to fire someone before my first coffee.
It's so nice to fire people and feel good about it. Justified. You know?
But not as nice as firing people for no reason at all.

It's Khama, kids, you can work hard all day and stay off the internet and I might still fire you. Actually its all the sweeter because you'll feel all hurt and upset that I didn't fire Mr Brown-nose who is always looking at the porn sites and saying really nasty things about me behind my back, or Mr Sick-Note who never seems to do a days work.
No, too easy. No satisfaction.

One of you will do nicely. "Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life."

JMW

http://www.ViscoAnalyser.com

 

[epoisses]

Well if my company forbids me to surf the web during my two-minute breaks (I'm not a smoker) I guess I'll go back to the old system and read the newspaper in the toilets or spend the entire afternoon in the plant looking like I'm working my @$$ off trying to follow a piece of pipe from A to Z.

 

[SomptingGuy]

The equivalent for us software engineers would be to push windows around the screen all afternoon.

 

[cowski]

SomptingGuy,

I thought software engineers kept looking busy by deleting .dll files from their machine until a blue screen pops up.

 

[ivymike]

I once found that the only way to KEEP a BSOD from coming up was to delete a particular .dll... Photoshop had some bunk dll with it that was trying to do something-or-other on my intel processor that didn't work so hot. End result was that every tenth time or so that I'd shift a layer around on top of another one, the whole machine would die. I went one-by-one through the graphics-related (guessing by name) dll files, renaming them each, until I found one that made the crashes stop. Then I buhleeted it and that was that. Photoshop still works, sans BSOD.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

All the organs of the body were having a meeting, trying to decide who was the one in charge.

"I should be in charge," said the brain, "because I run all the body's systems, so without me nothing would happen".

"I should be in charge," said the blood, "because I circulate oxygen all over so without me you'd all waste away."

"I should be in charge," said the stomach," because I process food and give all of you energy."

"I should be in charge," said the legs, "because I carry the body wherever it needs to go."

"I should be in charge," said the eyes, "because I allow the body to see where it goes."

"I should be in charge," said the rectum, "Because I'm responsible for waste removal."

All the other body parts laughed at the rectum and insulted him, so in a huff, he shut down tight.

Within a few days, the brain had a terrible headache, the stomach was bloated, the legs got wobbly, the eyes got watery, and the blood was toxic.

They all decided that the rectum should be the boss.

The Moral of the story?
The arse hole is usually in charge.


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[svanels]

CorBlimeyLimey, that was a long time ago I have seen this one, but the moral was somehow different:

It doesn't need a brain to run a business, just an @ssh..
(popular phrase among the craft)